BREAKING: FBI Dir. Announces Shock “Database” to Monitor Cops

In testimony before a Senate committee on Tuesday, FBI Director James Comey announced a major step toward federalizing local policing, introducing a database to monitor cops for supposed racial bias.

“This is one of the most important issues we confront in the FBI — I think we confront as Americans,” Comey told Sen. Corey Booker, D-N.J., during his testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, according to CNS News. “Every conversation, in my view, about the use of force and race and policing in this country is uninformed.”

“We will build a nationwide database … that shows us what happened, who was involved, what were they like, what were the circumstances, so we can have informed conversations,” he continued.

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“We simply must collect data that is reliable nationwide about police use of deadly force, in connection, in altercations encounters with civilians. We simply must,” Comey continued. “If there is anything more inherently governmental than that, I can’t imagine what it is. But we’re now in a situation where we’ve got newspapers that are the only source for that kind of data. And their data isn’t comprehensive.”

When asked by Sen. Booker if there was a “policing crisis in this country,” Comey responded:

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“I believe we have a chasm in this country that, in many places, where a divide is open and opening between law enforcement and communities, especially the African-American community. It is — the causes for it are complicated and long-standing, but not elusive, right, we can stare at it. We have problems, things we can do better in law enforcement that are obvious and we’re working very hard to change.”

While no one at this publication is for racial discrimination in any guise, there is something deeply ominous about a federalized database about every interaction police have with civilians — especially when said database sounds like it’s being implemented to reach a predetermined conclusion.

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This database would also sound a lot less like it was creeping federalization of local police forces if it were happening in a vacuum. Alas, it is not, and we have other instances to prove that Washington wants to make sure that your local police adhere to their political agenda.

Take, for example, George Soros’ Open Society Foundation, which has recommended that riots like Baltimore and Ferguson be treated as opportunities for bureaucrats to “drive long-term institutional change in police-community practice.”

This change, of course, would not happen on a local level, but through President Barack Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing, which encourages rigorous federal oversight of local police forces. Oh yeah, and it’s a task force Soros and the Open Society Foundation have had a profound influence on and would likely continue to influence under a Hillary Clinton administration.

The U.N. Human Rights Council has also come out for the Task Force on 21st Century Policing, as well. You may remember the U.N. Human Rights Council as the august world body that beacons of freedom like Gadhafi’s Libya, Chavez’s Venezuela, Castro’s Cuba and the Shariah state of Saudi Arabia have sat or currently do sit upon.

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Apparently, while arresting people for political opinions or stoning women for adultery isn’t a major concern for the U.N. Human Rights Council, who your local police pulls over is.

“The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice has provided oversight and recommendations for improvement of police services in a number of cities with consent decrees,” United Nations rapporteur Maina Kiai wrote as a representative of the Human Rights Council after a tour of America. “This is one of the most effective ways to reduce discrimination in law enforcement and it needs to be beefed up and increased to cover as many of the 18,000-plus local law enforcement jurisdictions.”

Kiai, incidentally, may not be the most unbiased source in the world. According to the Baton Rouge Advocate, his tour included a stop in Baton Rouge, where local activists and students hit him with complaints about how local police were racist in the wake of Alton Sterling’s shooting.

A quick scan of the Baton Rouge Advocate article will show no statistics; apparently, the federalization of 18,000-plus local jurisdictions is warranted, in Kiai’s view, simply by popular emotion.

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And, just so we’re clear on the priorities of the organization Maina Kiai represents: stoning women = not a biggie, local control of law enforcement = human rights issue. And the U.N. wonders why Americans have so little respect for it.

This is the environment in which Comey’s database is being birthed into existence. In an America where such a database did not have an overtly political objective, there would be only minor objections to such a project. When it is used to possibly justify something that Comey and the Obama administration have already said they wished to justify, this database is a dangerous augury of what the left has in store for America’s police.

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